digger1 wrote:
The military is bad and the US should be a neutral country. I'll tell her that if she joins the military, she might have to kill infants and animals because someone told you to. Maybe not directly, (soldier, kill those farm animals and those babies!) but indirectly. If she's ordered to bomb a location or fire a rocket at some building, there might be collateral damage that could hurt, maim, cripple or kill unintended civilians and they include children and animals. And for what? Some agenda the country has that they're not telling the general public even if it's oil, trying to oust a brutal dictator or to get the land from these people. The typical soldier won't know these reasons.
Why do you tell your child things like they have to kill animals and babies? Even telling her that those people do that indirectly will warp her mind. Can you imagine how she will grow to hate anyone in uniform?
So she should work in a restaurant? Where she has to server alcohol that destroys bodies and causes people to wreck and kill other people? Or is that ok? Maybe she could work in a factory but those pollute. Offices? No, they generate a ton of paper and consume tons of electricity.
Or maybe, she will join the military and learn the truth. That just like any other job, it can suck. Or you could tell her how the military has helped millions of people around the world by trying to stop whole-sale murder like in Bosnia or Rwanada or Germany.
Do you know that even Buddhist are in the military?
You can teach her compassion without telling her these people are out to murder. I know I do with my kids.
14 May 2008, 7:22 pm
